Fortnite star Benjyfishy\u2019s game crashes during $1.35M FNCS Grand Finals Epic Games \/ NRG EsportsWhile competing in the Fortnite Season 5 FNCS Grand Finals, NRG pro Benjy \u2018Benjyfishy\u2019 Fish was kicked from the day\u2019s first match when his game crashed. Despite the setback, he and his team would return to the action and rattle off some impressive results. Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 5 is winding down and with Season 6 kicking off on March 16, professional players are jumping into the seasonal FNCS Grand Finals. Some of the biggest tournaments outside of the Fortnite World Cup, Grand Finals are always a treat for pros to compete in. The combined Season 5 FNCS prize pool is more than $3 million across all seven regions, and the best players in the world are out in droves to compete. With that much money on the line, and the competition so cutthroat, players want to be at the top of their game while fighting for the ultimate victory royale. Unfortunately for Benjyfishy, his first match of day one was interrupted when his game experienced a hard crash. Despite being kicked out of the game, Benjy and his team came back in style and secured a second-place finish heading into day two. The first match of the day started off fast, with Benjy and his two teammates \u2014 \u2018Umplify\u2019 and \u2018Matsoe\u2019 \u2014 dropping into Slurpy Swamp and grabbing loot. Roughly five minutes later, the trio had just entered a gunfight with another team when Fish was met with disaster. As he moved behind cover, his game froze and he immediately exclaimed \u201cWait, I think my game crashed, I think my game crashed!\u201d As his team rushed to protect him, the streamer\u2019s screen went black for a moment and then returned as he logged back into the main Fortnite menu. benjy crashed so round 1 will be restarted sorry for the team who wins it \u2014 aqua (@aquaa) March 13, 2021 Despite losing one-third of their team to the disconnect, Umplify and Matsoe put up a strong performance in the rest of game one. The two players managed to break into the top five rankings with a combination of high kills and placement even though they were at a disadvantage. Afterward, Benjy seemed confident he would avoid any issues in later matches. When loading into the second game, one of his teammates commented that they\u2019d never seen him crash before, and Fish confirmed \u201cI\u2019ve never crashed [before this], no joke.\u201d Initially, it seemed the lobby would re-play the first game of the day, but this ended up not being the case. The action continued as planned, and in the second match, the team made an impressive statement by winning the game and racking up 17 elims in the process. 2nd place day 1\ud83d\udc4d@UmplifyFN @MatsoeFN pic.twitter.com\/4oXZA2fWSF \u2014 benjyfishy (@benjyfishy) March 13, 2021 While game crashes are typically a one-off occurrence \u2014 unless an entire server or game lobby crashes at once \u2014 Benjy was not the only pro player to be impacted by issues in Season 5\u2019s FNCS. Kyle \u2018Mongraal\u2019 Jackson, a fellow British pro competing for FaZe, had his hopes for FNCS qualification crushed by a similar disconnect. Regardless of the issues during day one\u2019s competition, Benjyfishy and his team put on an impressive performance and will be looking to secure the number-one spot \u2014 and its prize money \u2014 during Season 5\u2019s second day of FNCS Grand Finals action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite star Benjyfishy\u2019s game crashes during $1.35M FNCS Grand Finals Epic Games \/ NRG EsportsWhile competing in the Fortnite Season 5 FNCS Grand Finals, NRG pro Benjy \u2018Benjyfishy\u2019 Fish was kicked from the day\u2019s first match when his game crashed. Despite the setback, he and his team would return to the action and rattle off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}